Welcome to our corner of the web! Here you will learn about our family and our journey of a family member adoption. In July of 2010, after 9 years of trying to add to our family and 5 years after we started our adoption journey, we welcomed baby Emily Rose. Emily's birth mom is Sharon's adopted sister. We look forward to someday adopting more children but for now, we are enjoying our time together as a family of 4!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Finished!

Jacob finished taking the deck out and leveling the soil (of course remembering to slope it away from the house for drainage - thank you home inspection! That was part of our home inspection when we bought our house, the sellers needed to fix a small area near the house that wasn't sloped properly for drainage-which we were totally willing to fix, but the VA inspector wouldn't let us. But if it weren't for the inspection letting us know what we would need to do in that instance, we would have had no clue we needed to do that). He built a sprinkler as well out of PVC pipe and sprinkler heads. This way we can water all of it at once. So the new yard has been de-decked (HAHA!), all the cement footings for the deck have been taken out, the area has been cleaned, the soil has been prepped, fertilized, seeded and watered (alot!). In doing all this work he uncovered a flagstone looking (only it's not flagstone) walkway that goes from the patio to the area in front of Jacob's shop. So funny because I was thinking of adding one! lol This is a heavily shaded area so we made sure to get grass seed made for shaded areas. Hopefully we will end up with a nice, lawn back there. Wish us luck! ;o)

Jacob is setting up the sprinkler that he made. You can't see the walkway very well because it's so dark outside and Jacob is in the way. ;o) Jacob also trimmed the Ivy on the fence back a little. In a couple of weeks hopefully he will be able to get it all out.

Today (Sunday) we went to church, and then it was over to my brother Ben's house for a get together. It was really fun. I will post pictures in the next few days.

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About Us

Hi! Thanks for stopping by and getting to know more about us. Our names are Jacob and Sharon. We are members of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We were married 9 years ago in the Provo Temple in Provo Utah. Our daughter Tamara is 16 years old. And in July of 2010 we welcomed our newest daughter Emily, through the wonderful gift of adoption. As a family we love to explore, visit new places and learn new things (seriously, Sharon is a history buff). We enjoy movie nights, and game nights. We have a Crazy life, but it's a wonderful life, and we LOVE it!

Jacob works Full Time at a Salt Plant. He is also a student at the University of Utah where he is pursuing his Bachelors degree in Political Science. He is 1 semester away from graduating and we are waiting to hear if he has been accepted into the PhD program. He wants to be a college professor.

Sharon is a full time Stay at Home Mom and she LOVES it! She recently started back to school as well and is currently pursuing her Associates of Applied Science degree in Visual Art & Design with Photography Emphasis. Ultimately she hopes to be a photojournalist. She enjoys photography, cake decorating, and cardmaking among other things.

Tamara is a happy go lucky teenager who is in her Junior year of high school. She loves theatre and music. She loves hanging out with her friends but also loves family time. She is already starting to look at colleges and can't wait to go for her dreams.

Emily is our newest family member. We welcomed her to our family through the gift of adoption in July of 2010. After many long years of trying to expand our family, and hoping to adopt, we got the call we had been waiting for. But the call came from an unexpected person. Sharon's sister, who is adopted herself, asked us if we would be the parents of her unborn baby. We were honored to say yes. We now enjoy a very open adoption.

We love animals and have a cat. Tobi is her name and she is a gray and brown tabby. We adopted her from a shelter in June of 2010. We recently lost our beloved dog Sirius who after 7 years with us, died at almost 9 years of age of cancer. We miss him so much and don't really see ourselves getting another dog because how can you replace the perfect dog?